MONROE - Green County Board of Supervisors must be careful about what they say regarding the Oct. 6 referendum in the coming weeks, County Clerk Mike Doyle told the Pleasant View Committee on Thursday.
The committee met Thursday to discuss the referendum, which was approved by the board Tuesday in a special session. Green County voters will decide Oct. 6 whether to allow the county to exceed the levy limit by up to $890,000 each of the next five years to help pay for a funding gap for Pleasant View Nursing Home operations.
Doyle told the committee the county board can't take any stand on the issue. It violates election laws for the board to take a stand either for or against the referendum.
Board members can talk to people as individuals and as taxpayers, Doyle said.
If the referendum passes, the additional taxes would cost the owner of a home valued at $150,000 about $50 annually each of the next five years. It will cost the owner of a home valued at $300,000 about $100 a year for the next five years.
In 2008, the nursing home operated at a deficit of about $900,000. This year it's estimated the nursing home will have a deficit of about $1.2 million. The county was to receive about $650,000 from the state for the Pleasant View budget. However, the state Legislature decided to keep some of the federal money ordinarily sent to the nursing home to help cover its Medicaid Trust Fund deficits.
In other business Thursday, the committee extended medical leave for Administrator Don Stoor for 30 days. Stoor has been on medical leave since May.
The committee met Thursday to discuss the referendum, which was approved by the board Tuesday in a special session. Green County voters will decide Oct. 6 whether to allow the county to exceed the levy limit by up to $890,000 each of the next five years to help pay for a funding gap for Pleasant View Nursing Home operations.
Doyle told the committee the county board can't take any stand on the issue. It violates election laws for the board to take a stand either for or against the referendum.
Board members can talk to people as individuals and as taxpayers, Doyle said.
If the referendum passes, the additional taxes would cost the owner of a home valued at $150,000 about $50 annually each of the next five years. It will cost the owner of a home valued at $300,000 about $100 a year for the next five years.
In 2008, the nursing home operated at a deficit of about $900,000. This year it's estimated the nursing home will have a deficit of about $1.2 million. The county was to receive about $650,000 from the state for the Pleasant View budget. However, the state Legislature decided to keep some of the federal money ordinarily sent to the nursing home to help cover its Medicaid Trust Fund deficits.
In other business Thursday, the committee extended medical leave for Administrator Don Stoor for 30 days. Stoor has been on medical leave since May.